0001|            SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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0002|                       SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 24
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0003|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 1998
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0011|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0012|     REQUESTING THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE
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0013|     TO STUDY MASSAGE THERAPY AS IT RELATES TO THE HEALTH CARE
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0014|     SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO. 
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0016|          WHEREAS, massage therapy is an integral part of
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0017|     alternative medicine and is represented by approximately three
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0018|     thousand licensed massage therapists;
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0019|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0020|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the legislative health and human
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0021|     services committee be requested to study massage therapy, the
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0022|     level of training of massage therapists, methods of payment,
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0023|     physicians' referrals, interactions with other primary care
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0024|     providers, health clinics and hospitals and other related
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0025|     federal and state laws relating to medicaid and medicare, and
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<center>- 1 -</center>0001|     report back to the first session of forty-fourth legislature;
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0002|     and
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0003|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0004|     transmitted to members of the legislative health and human
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0005|     services committee.
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